What is κανὼν τῆς ψαλμωδίας, so often mentioned in the biography of St. Savva the Sanctified?

What is κανών τής ψαλμωδία, so often mentioned in the biography of the teacher. Savva the Sanctified? – The movement of the issue of help and charity for the poor and the participation of our clergy in this matter. – The care of the Church pastor for people at risk of seduction. – Explanation of the names of the months. – Church news and notes. At present, we can give more or less accurate information on this question, since we have in our hands a description of one very ancient manuscript of the 8th-9th centuries, which we saw in the library at Sinai. This manuscript has special significance for us due to its inscription, which establishes the connection between the orders described in it and the monastery of the teacher. Savva ἡμῶν Ζάββα - this is its full title. This manuscript characterizes mainly the order of the anchorite life of the hermits or Kellites of the monastery of St. Savva, but is not without significance for the history of the church liturgical order practiced in the monastery itself, since its daily order was undoubtedly similar in many ways. There are no services in the Book of Hours: Midnight Office, Matins and Compline, which is replaced by the service at the “first hour of the night.” As a preliminary prayer, the Book of Hours contains the first kathisma, divided into three glories, and then there are services for the first, third, sixth and ninth hours and for Vespers. Each of these services differs significantly in composition from the same services of our time. After the ninth hour, communion was performed with presanctified gifts (εἰς τὴν μετάληψιν), which the Kelliots took with them, going into silence. This service is similar to the modern “fine following”. It begins, “Remember us, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom,” all blessedness, glory; “Remember us, O holy one, when you come into your kingdom”; “The face of heaven sings to you”, glory;: “I believe”, “Our Father”, “Lord have mercy” 3 times, “One is holy”, “Taste and see that Christ is the Lord Alleluia.” I will bless you. For the Lord's sake at all times, his praise is in my mouth. In the Lord my soul may boast, that the meek may hear and rejoice,” glory, prayer after communion: “I have received your holy body together and your holy blood for the remission of all the sins that have sinned against you, O Lover of Mankind. Fill my mouth with praise, O Lord, for you yourself are my praise, and save me”: “Be the name of the Lord.” Prayer for Communion: “We thank you, O Lord my God, for you have made us worthy to receive communion.” The evening service (εἰς τὰ ἐαπερινὰ) begins with Psalm 103, followed by the entire eighteenth kathisma with the division into three glory Psalm 140, with glory at the end, “Quiet Light” with the end: “In the same way Μ ir tya celebrates”, “Alleluia”, verses: “Lord enthroned in beauty, the Lord is clothed with strength and girded,” Alliduia: “For establish the universe, which cannot move; thy throne is ready from thenceforth thou art from everlasting,” glory. For other days, different verses for “Alleluia”, “Lord grant”, “Now you forgive”, “Holy God”. Instead of “Compline” there is a service at the first hour of the night (εἰς τὴν πρ ώ την ὀψὲ). Its composition: “Come, let us worship” “The day has come, I give thanks to you” 3 times, psalms: 4, 12, 26, glory 30, 90, 6, glory, “God is with us, understand, the Gentiles” end: “The rulers of the world are the father of the next century.” Amen, “God is with us” 3 times, “Hallelujah” with verses: “Look, hear me, O Lord my God,” “In the world are my enemies,” and for other days, other troparia, “Lord, have mercy.” “Do not deliver to the beasts the soul that confesses to you.” Undoubtedly, by the very arrangement of its components, this service was supposed to replace our modern Great Compline and, despite the lack of an end, it is in many ways similar. with him. From our analysis of this Orology it is clear that κ αν ὠ ν της ψωδίας , Denotes the full range of daily services set out in the Book of Hours for private use. Retiring on Sunday afternoon to the desert and spending time there in solitude and labor for a whole week until Saturday evening or all-night vigil, each monk of the monastery took with him only one Book of Hours and, according to it, at a certain time of day and night, read the psalmody or sequence prescribed, according to the canon of St. Sava. Not wanting to deprive myself of the Holy Communion. divine Mysteries, the monks took spare Gifts from the Lavra. At the hour of the liturgy in the monastery, each monk read a special sequence “for communion” or our liturgy and then received St. Secrets. With such a Book of Hours, the monks went on the road; such a “canon of psalmody” could be comfortably performed by the monks of the Lavra while in the palace of the Byzantine emperors, as the Monk Sava did in the palace of the Emperor Justinian (we take this fact from the biography) when he was studying with the quaestor Tribunian. Therefore, as the spiritual testament of St. Savvas of the Sanctified, and his very “canon of psalmody” provide extremely interesting data for the study of the life of the monastic 6th century, and also introduce us to the composition and features of church and liturgical orders in the monasteries of that time. The service of είς τὴν πρώτην ὤ ραν τῆς ἠ μέρας begins with a doxology: - “Glory to the Father”, followed by “Our Father”, “Come let us worship”, “Night having come, I thank you” 3 times, Psalms 5, 45, 66, 69, 89, 91, 100 and 112, “Alleluia” eleven times, “Lord, hear my prayer”, end: “No one living will be justified before you” Alleluia, “I will hear, make me the morning of your mercy” end: “thy will, for thou art my God.” Hallelujah. “Your good spirit will guide me” end: “For I am your servant.” “True Light, enlighten” and the end: “and save us.” For other days there are other verses. And “Correct my feet” 3 times. “Deliver me from slander,” etc. “Holy God,” “I Believe,” and “Our Father.” At the third hour, psalms: 16, 24, 42, 50, 142, 144 and 150, Alleluia. “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy” end: “Cleanse me”, “Hallelujah”, “Turn away your face from my sins” end: “and strengthen me with the Lord’s spirit”, “Lord who is your most holy Spirit at the third hour.” On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it is necessary to read another verse instead of the present one: “Blessed is the Lord God” 3 times, “God hasten to us our salvation”, “Holy God” 3 times. At the sixth hour the psalms were read: 53, 54, 68, 69, 90 and 145, Alleluia with the verses: “Have mercy on me, O God, as I have been trampled by man” end: “I will not fear, but I trust in you” “Alleluia”, “In God I will praise the word, in the Lord I will praise”, end: “I will rejoice before God in the light of the living”, “Who at the sixth hour was Jesus Christ our God nailed to the cross” (Changed Troparion), “Soon may thy compassions precede us, O Lord”, 3 times “for the glory of thy name, O Lord”, “Holy God”. At the ninth hour they read psalms: 83, 84, 85 and the seventh song: “Blessed is the Lord God of our fathers, praised and glorified is your name forever” to the end “Alleluia”, “The Lord shepherds me and will deprive me of nothing” end: “I will fear no evil, for you are with me” “Alleluia”, “Your rod and your club”, (to the end), “Glory to Christ our God,” “He who was hanged on a tree at the ninth hour betrayed his soul to the Father.” “Christ: glory to our God,” “Do not betray us to the end, for your name,” 3 times, “for the sake of your beloved Abraham,” “Holy God.” You might be interested in: